Although this blog focuses mainly on the federal False Claims Act (FCA), other antifraud statutes feature in the qui tam relator and government enforcement toolkit. Key among them: the California...

SciCheck Digest The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant people, and the World Health Organization says the vaccines are safe for them. Yet online ...

When the story appeared last week on a local news site, a spokesman for Mayor Dave Bronson of Anchorage denied it. Then the spokesman acknowledged it was true: Mr. Bronson went to a city water tr...

As of December 13, 2021, each separate violation of the False Claims Act exposes defendants to a per-claim penalty between $11,803 and $23,607. The increase is part of the Civil Monetary Penaltie...

They have decried COVID-19 as a hoax, promoted unproven treatments and pushed bogus claims about the vaccine, including that the shots magnetize the human body. The purveyors of this misinformati...

On December 9, Ohio State Representatives Jeffrey A. Crossman and Paula Hicks-Hudson announced the introduction of the Ohio False Claims Act. The law is modeled off the highly successful federal ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a consumer warning regarding unproven health benefit claims related to the use of vaping products. The Michigan Poison and Drug Information Center...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A 37-year-old California man was sentenced to probation Wednesday after faking car accidents to profit from false insurance claims. Na Var Derick Lee of Pasadena, California, w...

A Republican candidate for Colorado governor has made bizarre and false claims about the current governor, Jared Polis, among them that he’s not really gay, was once married to a woman whom he ab...

From HCA Healthcare defeating billing fraud allegations to Geisinger paying $18.5 million to settle allegations of fraudulent billing, here are nine cases that have made headlines since Nov. 1: 1...